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A support program for your patients living with coronary heart disease

MyHeart MyLife is designed to meet the information and support needs of adults living with coronary heart disease and those who care for them.

The program complements your clinical care by helping patients to better manage their condition to reduce their risk of future heart events and to live well with heart disease.

Your patients, and their carers, can also join the MyHeart MyLife Facebook community, where they can connect with others living with a heart condition for peer support.

Want to learn more about what’s included in the MyHeart MyLife program? Access your copy of the MyHeart MyLife Health professional program guide, with links to MyHeart MyLife content and supporting resources.

How it works

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Recommend the program to your patients. Share the MyHeart MyLife referral flyer [hyperlink] or refer your patients to myheartmylife.org.au.

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Patients register at myheartmylife.org.au with their contact details and respond to a few brief questions so we can tailor their support.

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Patients receive evidence-based information and practical tips via online content, emails and text messages. Patients can also access the MyHeart MyLife Facebook community.

MyHeart MyLife was a great support tool that answered a lot of questions and reduced the fear and anxiety of not knowing the best path forward. It was comforting to know that I was not alone in this journey.

MyHeart MyLife participant

MyHeart MyLife health professional program guide

To help you understand what’s covered in the program, we have developed the MyHeart MyLife Health professional program guide, with access to MyHeart MyLife content and supporting resources.

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MyHeart MyLife Facebook community

The MyHeart MyLife community is a closed Facebook group connecting people living with a heart condition, and their loved ones and carers (peer support).

Moderated by the Heart Foundation, the group unites people across Australia touched by heart disease, helping them to feel less alone no matter where they are on their heart health journey.

Offer the MyHeart MyLife Facebook community to your patients, available at facebook.com/groups/myheartmylifecommunity

How does MyHeart MyLife complement clinical care?

Our Chief Medical Advisor Professor Garry Jennings describes how the program bridges the gap between hospital, primary care and cardiac rehabilitation

How can MyHeart MyLife support your patients?

Hear from cardiologist Professor Raj Puranik and Rowena, a heart event survivor, about how MyHeart MyLife supports patients to better heart health.

The Heart Foundation would like to acknowledge and thank the many people and organisations that have contributed to the design and development of the digital MyHeart MyLife program, including patients, carers and healthcare professionals across the country, our Consumer Advisory Group members, and our digital agency Endava.

University of Sydney Westmead Applied Research Centre We would like to particularly acknowledge the foundational work of Prof Clara Chow and her research team at Westmead Applied Research Centre from which evidence-based behaviour change strategies have been adapted for the MyHeart MyLife program.

We would also like to acknowledge and thank all of those involved in the research, pilot program and needs assessment that informed the design of the MyHeart MyLife program:

The Tobacco, Exercise and Diet Messages (TEXT ME) trial

Chow CK, Redfern J, Hillis GS, et al. Effect of Lifestyle-Focused Text Messaging on Risk Factor Modification in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2015;314(12):1255–1263. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.10945

The MyHeart MyLife Pilot evaluation

Kazi S, Truesdale C, Ryan P, Wiesner G, Jennings G, Chow C. Initial Implementation of the My Heart, My Life Program by the National Heart Foundation of Australia: Pilot Mixed Methods Evaluation Study. JMIR Cardio. 2023 Oct 5;7:e43889. doi: 10.2196/43889. PMID: 37796544; PMCID: PMC10587802.

Literature review: Information needs and communication strategies for people with coronary heart disease: a scoping review

Zwack CC, Smith C, Poulsen V, Raffoul N, Redfern J. Information Needs and Communication Strategies for People with Coronary Heart Disease: A Scoping Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 17;20(3):1723. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20031723. PMID: 36767091; PMCID: PMC9914653.

MyHeart MyLife program – qualitative consumer research

Conducted by Heartward Strategic, 2022

This program was developed with partial funding received from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.

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